ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ-> This is The 'SPORRS' Mailing List -> Info File: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/infosporrs.htm -> Note: Remember to include your name in each list post or reply. -> Please delete all unnecessary quoted text from the original message! ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ >Not to be nitpicking, why would you want to repair a zoom lens? Throw it in >the garbage can. Fixed focal length lenses will be sharper than zoom lenses. >Ask any of my instructors at Foothill College and they will sing the perils of >zooms lenses for you. When you blow a slide/negative up to 8x10 and 11x14, >the loss of sharpness of a zoom will show! Sorry, but its the truth. ; - )
>Sam Reeves I have to disagree here. Although with most older equipment, this may very well be true, the newer zooms, especially from Nikon and Canon are razor sharp at all focal lengths. I can vouch for this with the Canon EOS 80-200 f2.8L Lens I own, and this is even now the obsolete version of the lens in Canon's line. The L series lenses (zooms) have special glass that not only increase color saturation (contrast) but allows for extremely sharp, aspherically corrected images, which make sure that the blue, green, and red wavelengths of light all focus on the film plane at the right place, which enhances sharpness as well. I note from a visit to your web site that you also show a disregard for the newer equipment altogether. Just a note. Even though I own a Canon EOS-1, and EOS-1n and autofocus lenses, I seldom auto-anything. I use a Minolta Flashmeter IV for incident light meter readings, and about 60% of the time, I manually focus my shots. However, it is extremely nice to have that supersmart camera, with the lightning fast autofocus available when I need it. One other note about zooms. For those of us who hate dragging around a bag full of lenses every where we go, zoom lenses are a blessing. Many time when hiking to locations I have never been, you do not know which lenses to include in your bag, thus, either you carry all of your lenses, or you risk missing the best possible composition of a shot when you only take a few. I can take two lenses, (an 80-200, and a 28-70), and I have covered virtually the entire range of shots that I would compose. Granted, zooms are not for everyone, but for a lot of us, it makes life much easier. Besides, there very well may be a money issue as well. To effectively cover the 80-200 range, I would have to buy at least 5 lenses, an 85, 105, 135, and 200. Not very cost effective, is it. I can't see where chucking zoom lenses are of any great benefit, especially to those who have become accustomed to using them. RIck Newton St. Charles, MO ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ-> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
